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The languages of babel

January, 2020 Murray Adamthwaite Creation Ministries International
Crucial Geological Proxy May Be Misinterpreted

November 11, 2019 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

Many inferences about past climate and evolution depend on a measurement with dubious interpretations.
Whatever Happened to BioLogos (and “Christian Evolutionism” in General)?

November 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
A Short Sermon on Einstein’s God

November 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
9 Things You Should Know About the Armenian Genocide

November 9, 2019 Joe Carter The Gospel Coalition
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How can we test a Theory of Everything?

November 9, 2019 Sabine Hossenfelder backreaction.blogspot.com
Shoving Fossils onto Darwin’s Timeline

November 9, 2019 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

Fossils do not tell a Darwinian story unless they are forced into his narrative.
Free First and Last Chapters of Joshua Swamidass’s New Book on Adam and Eve

November 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
Stephen L. Talbott: “Let’s Not Begin with Natural Selection”

November 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
David Tyler on the Significance of David Gelernter Dumping Darwin

November 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
Rob Sheldon Defends Sociologist Steve Fuller Against Nathaniel Comfort

November 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
Jeffrey Epstein Certainly Lies in an Unquiet Grave…

November 9, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Hugh Ross: Reasons to Believe

November 8, 2019 The Eric Metaxas Radio Show YouTube

Astrophysicist Hugh Ross returns to the show to tell adventurous stories about how the same God who created the universe for a purpose creates each one of us for a unique purpose as well.
Evolution for the Birds: Must Adaptation Be Evolutionary?

November 8, 2019 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

Darwinians use adaptation and evolution almost interchangeably. Is that justified?
Neanderthals' cave art skills questioned in dispute over age of images

November 8, 2019 Alison George New Scientist
Three New Books on Human Consciousness to Blow Your Mind

November 8, 2019 Dan Falk undark.org

Can we measure consciousness? Is everything a little bit conscious? Get ready to dive down the rabbit hole.
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Early dispersal for quadrupedal cetaceans: Amphibious whale from middle Eocene

November 8, 2019 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Science Daily

Scientists have a relatively precise idea about where whales and their closest terrestrial relatives evolved more than 50 million years ago (early Eocene), thanks to the discovery of ancient cetacean fossils in India and Pakistan.
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Fossil suggests apes, old world monkeys moved in opposite directions from shared ancestor

November 8, 2019 American Museum of Natural History Science Daily

Hip joint study could help explain why apes, humans, and Old World monkeys move so differently
‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals

November 7, 2019 Jordana Cepelewicz Quanta Magazine

Activity in the visual cortex and other sensory areas is dominated by signals about body movements, down to little tics and twitches. Scientists are now rethinking how they study and conceive of perception.
Physicists Can Finally Peek at Schrödinger's Cat Without Killing It Forever

November 7, 2019 Dana Najjar Live Science

At last we can sneak a peek at the dead-and-alive cat.
Do Maillard Reactions Explain Dinosaur Proteins?

November 7, 2019 Brian Thomas Institute for Creation Research
Cancer Cells Increase DNA Mutations to Evade Treatment

November 7, 2019 Abby Olena The Scientist

Colorectal tumor cells limit their DNA repair in response to a targeted therapy, giving them a greater chance to develop resistance to the drug.
Ape Fossils Shed New Light on Evolution of Bipedalism

November 7, 2019 Catherine Offord The Scientist

The 12-million-year-old bones of a previously unknown species named Danuvius guggenmosi challenge the prevailing view about when and where our ancestors first started walking upright.
Spaceflight Alters Genes of Human Stem Cell–Derived Heart Cells

November 7, 2019 Emily Makowski The Scientist

Cardiomyocytes made from iPSCs aboard the International Space Station had upregulated mitochondrial functioning.
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Researchers discover how cells know their future and forget their past

November 7, 2019 University of Copenhagen, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Science Daily

All cells in the body contain the same genetic material. The difference between cells therefore depends solely on which genes are expressed or ‘turned on'.
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Mammals' complex spines are linked to high metabolisms; we're learning how they evolved

November 7, 2019 Field Museum Science Daily

Mammals' backbones are weird. They're much more complex than the spines of other land animals like reptiles. Scientists wanted to find out how these complex backbones evolved in the first place.
New Scientist Tries to Undermine Cambrian Explosion

November 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
Researchers Test Whether Science Advances One Funeral at a Time

November 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
What is Homo luzonensis?

November 7, 2019 Matthew Cserhati, Peter Line, and Joel Tay Creation Ministries International

Ape or man?
Bill Dembski Remembers Phil Johnson (1940-2019)

November 7, 2019 Uncommon Descent
Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?

November 7, 2019 Michelle Moscova The Conversation

The debate about why women have a clitoris has long been shaped by cultural, religious and moral influences.
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Thoughts on Danuvius, that new Miocene ape fossil

November 6, 2019 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

There's a new fossil paper in Nature that's grabbing some headlines, and frankly, it's an odd one. This post is mostly my gut reaction after reading the paper.
The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

November 6, 2019 Colin Barras New Scientist

The Cambrian explosion is feted as the moment where complex animals burst onto the scene, but the enigmatic Ediacaran creatures that came first are rewriting the history of life on Earth
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Cytoplasm of scrambled frog eggs organizes into cell-like structures

November 6, 2019 Stanford Medicine Science Daily

The cytoplasm of ruptured Xenopus frog eggs spontaneously reorganizes into cell-like compartments, according to a study.
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How Human Population came from our ability to cooperate

November 6, 2019 University of Chicago Press Journals Science Daily

Humans' ability to cooperate during child-bearing years by sharing food, labor, and childcare duties is the story of population growth.
But Could Techno-Immortality Ever Be the Real Thing?

November 6, 2019 Mind Matters

Oxford mathematician John Lennox looks at Ray Kurzweil’s techno-immortality from a Christian perspective
Babies Have a Number Sense Before They Can Count

November 6, 2019 Mind Matters

The study showed that counting with babies makes a difference, even though their understanding is not very exact
Some women lack odour-detecting brain cells but can still sense smells

November 6, 2019 Jason Arunn Murugesu New Scientist
The weird creatures that might be the very first complex animals

November 6, 2019 Colin Barras New Scientist

The Cambrian explosion is feted as evolution's big bang, but the enigmatic Ediacaran creatures that came first are rewriting the history of life on Earth
Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

November 6, 2019 Michael Marshall New Scientist
Korea, Darwinism, Racism, and War

November 6, 2019 Jerry Bergman Answers in Genesis
BreakPoint: Remembering Phillip Johnson

November 6, 2019 John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris Break Point

The Man Who Put Darwin on Trial
Podcast: The Legacy of Phillip Johnson

November 6, 2019 John Stonestreet Break Point

An Interview with Dr. Jay Richards
Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

November 6, 2019 Matthew Hutson Quanta Magazine

Neural networks that borrow strategies from biology are making profound leaps in their abilities. Is ignoring a goal the best way to make truly intelligent machines?
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Does Darwinism necessarily entail atheism?

November 6, 2019 Dan Peterson patheos.com
Evolution or intelligent design? The story of the bacterial flagellar motor

November 6, 2019 Matt A. B. Baker and Nicholas J. Matzke ABC News (Australia)

Nature abounds with wonders -- and the quest to explain them has driven some epic human advances. But scientific discoveries are often resisted when they contradict powerful religious traditions.
Standing tall: Scientists find oldest example of upright ape

November 6, 2019 Frank Jordans Associated Press

The remains of an ancient ape found in a Bavarian clay pit suggest that humans’ ancestors began standing upright millions of years earlier than previously thought
Do the Deaths of Top Scientists Make Way for New Growth?

November 6, 2019 Veronique Greenwood undark.org

A study suggests that after prominent scientists die, their fields see an influx of work from lesser-known researchers
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A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans

November 6, 2019 Madelaine Böhme, et al. Nature

Many ideas have been proposed to explain the origin of bipedalism in hominins and suspension in great apes (hominids); however, fossil evidence has been lacking.
Phillip E. Johnson (1940-2019), Some Reflections

November 6, 2019 Bill Dembski billdembski.com